vertigo

please help me...it just comes on...no rhyme or reason...sometimes small bouts throughout the day sometimes for days at a time.
either lightheaded or vertigo...anyone?
i have both sensations from time to time.
and headaches.
ty, sc
[This Message was Edited on 06/03/2008]

Yes, I have it too. As a matter of fact I posted on this topic just yesterday.

I have been dealing with it every day since March. Some days are better than others. Mine is positional vertigo, meaning it depends on the position of my head. I cannot look up or down or roll over in bed without going into a major tailspin.

Some days if I am in a rush like when I am preparing a meal it bothers me also. If I move slowly it isn't so bad.

Have you had any CT scans or MRI's? I did just to rule out anything else and for peace of mind.

I have had vestibular problems my whole life. However, once I started getting this one of my first symptoms besides fatigue was an increase in the dizzyness.

I went to an otoneurologist (sp?) and he did all the tests for hearing, but when he did the neuroloical test, I was so dizzy from doing the evaluation and stopped. His impression was that it was caused by an autoimmune disease.

Hi all,
I'm new to this board. After a 2-and-a-half-year ordeal of making the rounds between numerous doctors/specialists and having every medical test in the book, I was finally diagnosed with CFS. My primary symptoms are brain fog, dizziness, light-headedness and disequilibrium. I have been through 2 rounds of vestibular tests, both normal. I am also very sensitive to visual stimuli, i.e., "busy" patterns, flashing lights, "jerky" video camera movies, and forget roller-coaster rides, etc.! Although CFS has no cure (yet!), I'm just so relieved to have a NAME for these puzzling symptoms!

I had this also and was treated by a phyical therapist at a hospital ,one treatment and it was gone!!They called it benign positional vertigo. They put me on a table and tilted it while watching my eyes and brought on the dizziness at the same time he was moving my head in different positions to move what he called calcium particles into a different postion in the ear so it wasnt touching the hairlike nerve fibers which was causing my dizziness. This was hang on to something because you just new you were going to fall dizziness. Would come out of nowhere, if I turned a special way in bed, shower putting my head back etc. It was such a blessing after the one treatment and it be gone. Thats been 5 yrs ago.Please check it out ,it really works. (the medication didnt help me at all with this). Hope this helps